Feminism

I am worth

*By Lamina Ifeoluwa*
It is exhausting and I am tired of fighting 

The war against absurdity in the making

I am fighting, I am fighting!

Issues concerning women displayed on TVs

As a second choice, we are gawked and guffed at

Too many words and insults at that!

My voice relinquished and suppressed 

Inability to tell the world, I am oppressed

That as a girl child and a woman 

I have the right as that of a man 

But man of authority tells me,

'You are nothing' and the abuse mutual

Why do you harness so much power, dear man? 

When you are not my God?

I seek revenge in my forlorn hope

At those who wish to accept 

Feminism, an hypothetical reality

And find solace in gender equality

Instead of being shoved like a whore about 

And tagged weak and interminably submissive

I am fighting, I am fighting 

Till my last breath reels near

I have been devalued and dehumanized 

Segregated and rejected because of Jeffrey Dahmer

For it is expedient I demonize equality

From this patriarchal society I bask in

Rather to let it fly high like the bird in the sky

Disgust, hate and reproach hunts me

Hence, I would spill every chaff of truth

And smash inequality, seal a truce rather than stay mute!